Raccoon Cay in The Raggeds: Deserted anchorage on this day, but earlier evidence of plentiful cruisers - a place to safely burn paper trash high on the beach. Preface: Kelly and I approached the shallows of Hog Cay as typical: cautious, watchful of electronic and visual cues of both bottom indicators and of nearby boats. …
Category: Places
Bodies Of Water and Homelessness
We can’t stay away for long. The bigger the body the better. We just returned from a brisk walk in Collingwood, along the shores of Georgian Bay. Water, across which an opposite shore is beyond the horizon. Southern shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. Bays, oceans, tidal rivers and enormous lakes are an aphrodisiac of sorts. …
Canadian Stepping Stone
Ok folks. Are you sitting down? “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”— Kurt Vonnegut Sailor Kelly and I are taking a year off from living on the water and heading north to friendly Ontario, Canada, to embark on a different adventure - this time via …
Window From Wonderland
A few more notes from a cruiser waiting to depart. A weather window occurs when weather forecasts indicate that a given set of marine operations or offshore construction activities can be performed within their maximum limits for wave height, wind speeds etc. (source: Wikipedia) But first… just a few more thoughts about visiting Bermuda. Fact: …
More Wanderlust?
What's wrong with me? Seriously, what drives this incessant thirst for dropping the hook in unfamiliar coves and then paddling over to introduce ourselves to strangers? (Kelly cringes every time I do this! Stranger Danger!) Nah, I say, overwhelmed with curiosity and thirst for discovering new people, places and things. Like a pilgrimage, we plod …
SV Fayaway 